Recent Books
Cockerham, William C. Forthcoming. The Globalization of Health. Cambridge, UK: Polity.
Cockerham, William C. (ed.). Forthcoming. The New Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology. Oxford, UK: Blackwell.
Cockerham, William C. Forthcoming. Sociology of Mental Disorder, 7th Edition. Tapei, Taiwan: Wu-Nan Book Company. (In Chinese)
Cockerham, William C. Forthcoming. Medical Sociology, 9th Edition, translated by Zilvinas Darulis. Kaunas, Lithuania: Kaunas University of Medicine Press. (In Lithuanian)
Cockerham, William C. In Press. Medical Sociology, 9th Edition, translated by Hojin Park.
Seoul, Korea: ACANET. (In Korean)
Cockerham, William C. 2007. Social Causes of Health and Disease. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Polity Press.
Cockerham, William C. 2007. Medical Sociology, 10th Edition, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice-Hall.
Cockerham, William C. 2006. Society of Risk Takers: Living Life on the Edge. New York:
Worth.
Cockerham, William C. 2005. Sociology of Mental Disorder, 7th Edition, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice-Hall.
Cockerham, William C. (ed.) 2005. The Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology. Oxford, United Kingdom: Blackwell (Paperback)
Cockerham, William C. 2005. This Aging Society, 2nd Edition, translated by Shuzo Nishimura, Hiroyuki Hattori, et al. With postscript by Yukio Yamori. Tokyo: Igaku Shoin. (In Japanese)
Cockerham, William C. 2004. Medical Sociology, 9th Edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice-Hall.
Cockerham, William C. 2003. Sociology of Mental Disorder, 6th Edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice-Hall.
Cockerham, William C. 2002. Medical Sociology, 8th Edition. Tapei, Taiwan: Wu-Nan Book
Company. (In Chinese)
Cockerham, William C. 2002. Sociología de la Medicina [Medical Sociology], 8th Edition, translated by Lourdes Lostao. With chapter on “Social Inequalities in Health in Spain” by Lourdes Lostao and Enrique Regidor. Madrid, Spain: Prentice-Hall. (In Spanish).
Cockerham, William C. 2001. The Global Society: An Introduction to Sociology. Cary, NC: OpenMind Publishing Group. (Electronic book)
Cockerham, William C. 2001. Medical Sociology, 8th Edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
Cockerham, William C. and Michael Glasser (eds.) 2001. Readings in Medical Sociology, 2nd Edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
Cockerham, William C. (ed.). 2001. The Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology. Oxford, United Kingdom: Blackwell. (Electronic book version by Baker and Taylor, Inc., Chicago, IL, 2003).
Cockerham, William C. 2000. Medical Sociology, 7th Edition, translated by Yang Hui and Zhang Tuohong. Beijing, China: Huaxia Publishing House. (In Chinese)
Cockerham, William C. 2000. Sociology of Mental Disorder, 5th Edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
Cockerham, William C. 1999. Health and Social Change in Russia and Eastern Europe. New York and London: Routledge.
*Cockerham, William C. 1998. Medical Sociology, 7th Edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc.
Cockerham, William C., Michael Glasser, and Linda Heuser (eds.). 1998. Readings in Medical Sociology. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc.
Cockerham, William C. and Ferris J. Ritchey. 1997. Dictionary of Medical Sociology. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
Cockerham, William C. 1997. This Aging Society, 2nd Edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc.
RECENT ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS
*Cockerham, William C. Forthcoming. "Medical Education and the American Healthcare System." In Caragh Brosnan and Bryan S. Turner (eds.), Handbook of Sociology of Medical Education. London: Routledge.
Cockerham, William C. and Brian C. Hinote. In Press. "Health Lifestyles and Competing Social Explanations of the Mortality Crisis in the Former Soviet Union." In Anatoly Vishnevsky (ed.), Mortality in Countries of the Formers USSR. Fifteen Years After the Breakup: Change or Continuity? Moscow: Center for Demography and Human Ecology. (In Russian)
*Cockerham, William C. In Press. "New Directions in Health Lifestyle Research." International Journal of Public Health.
*Cockerham, William C. and Brian P. Hinote. In Press. "Health Systems: United States." In H. Kristian Heggenhougen (ed.), Encyclopedia of Public Health. Oxford, UK: Elsevier.
Cockerham, William C. In Press. "A Note on the Fate of Postmodern Theory and Its Failure to Meet the Basic Requirements for Success in Medical Sociology
*Cockerham, William C., In Press. “Mental Disorder as Deviant Behavior.” Aleksander Dimitrijevic (ed.), Contemporary Approaches to Mental Health and Disorder. Belgrade, Serbia: Belgrade Institute for Textbooks. (in Serbian)
Cockerham, William C., Brian P. Hinote, Geoffrey B. Cockerham, and Pamela Abbott. In Press. “Health Lifestyles and Political Ideology in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine.” Social Science and Medicine.
Cockerham, Willaim C. 2007. "Health Lifestyles and the Absence of the Russian Middle Class." Sociology of Health and Illness. 29:457-473
*Cockerham, William C. 2007. “Health Behavior,” Vol. 4, pp. 2051-2052; “Health Lifestyles,” Vol. 4, pp. 2061-2063; and “Medical Sociology,” Vol. 6, pp. 2933-2936. In George Ritzer (ed.), Encyclopedia of Sociology. Oxford, UK: Blackwell.
*Cockerham, William C., Brian P. Hinote, and Pamela Abbott. 2006. “A Sociological Model of Health Lifestyles: Conducting a Preliminary Test Using Russian Data.” Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozial Psychologie [Cologne Journal of Sociology and Social Psychology] 46:177-197.
Cockerham, WIlliam C., Brian P. Hinote, and Pamela Abbott. 2006. "Psychological Distress, Gender, and the Health Crisis in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine." Social Science and Medicine. 63:2381-2394.
Cockerham, William C. 2006. "Class Matters: Health Lifestyles in Post-Soviet Russia." Harvard International Review. 28:42-45.
Cockerham, William C. 2006. "Health Lifestyles in an Asian Context." Health Sociology Review. 15:5-15.
Liddon, Nicole, LeaVonne Pulley, William C. Cockerham, Guenther Lueschen, Sten H. Vermund and Edward W. Hook. 2005. “Parents/Guardians Willingness to Vaccinate Their Children against Genital Herpes.”Journal of Adolescent Health.
Cockerham, William C., Brian P. Hinote, Pamela Abbott, and Christian Haerpfer. 2005. “Health Lifestyles in Ukraine.” Social and Preventive Medicine.
Willison, Kevin D., Gavin J. Andrews, and William C. Cockerham. 2005. “Life Chance Characteristrics of Older Swedish Massage Users.” Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice.
Cockerham, William C., 2005. “Health Lifestyle Theory and the Convergence of Agency and Structure.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 46:51-67.
Cockerham, William C., Brian P. Hinote, Pamela Abbott, and Christian Haerpfer. 2004. “Health Lifestyles in Central Asia: The Case of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.” Social Science and Medicine 59:1409-1421.
*Cockerham, William C. 2004. “Health as a Social Problem.” Pp. 281-297 in George Ritzer (ed.), Handbook of Social Problems: A Comparative International Perspective. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Willis, Leigh A., David W. Coombs, Patricia Drentea, and William C. Cockerham. 2003. “Uncovering the Mystery: Factors of African-American Suicide.” Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior 33:412-429.
Knesebeck, Olaf von dem, Günther Lüschen, William C. Cockerham, and Johannes Siegrist. 2003. “Socioeconomic Status and Health Among the Aged in the United States and Germany: A Comparative Cross-Sectional Study.” Social Science and Medicine. 57:1643-1652.
*Cockerham, William C. 2003. “The Military Institution.” Pp. 491-510 in Larry T. Reynolds and Nancy J. Herman-Kinney (eds.), Handbook of Symbolic Interaction. Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira Press.
*Cockerham, William C. 2002. “Is Health Care a Right or a Privilege?” Medicine and Philosophy 23(11):1-3. (In Chinese)
Snead, M. Christine, and William C. Cockerham. 2002. "Health Lifestyles and Social Class in the Deep South.” Research in the Sociology of Health Care 20:107-122. REPRINTED in Jennie L. Kronenfeld (ed.), Social Inequalities, Health and Health Care Delivery (Oxford, UK: Elsevier, 2002), pp. 107-122.
Willis, Leigh A., David W. Coombs, William C. Cockerham, and Sonja L. Frison. 2002. “Ready to Die: A Postmodern Interpretation of the Increase of African-American Male Suicide.” Social Science and Medicine 51:169-182.
*Cockerham, William C. 2002. “Problems of Justice and Distribution of Health Care in the USA.” Medicine and Philosophy 23(5):9-10. (In Chinese)
Cockerham, William C., M. Christine Snead, and Derek F. DeWaal. 2002. “Health Lifestyles in Russia and the Socialist Heritage.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior. 43:42-55.
*Cockerham, William C. and Yukio Yamori. 2001. “Okinawa: An Exception to the Social Gradient of Life Expectancy in Japan.” Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition 10:154-158.
Cockerham, William C. 2001. “Medical Sociology and Sociological Theory.” Pp. 3-22 in William C. Cockerham (ed.), Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology. Oxford, United Kingdom: Blackwell.
Cockerham, William C. 2000. “Health Lifestyles in Russia.” Social Science and Medicine 51:1313-1324.
*Cockerham, William C. 2000. “Medical Sociology at the Millennium.” Pp. 417-439 in Stella Quah and Arnaud Sales (eds.), Handbook of International Sociology. London: Sage. Sponsored by the International Sociological Association. REPRINTED in Graham Scambler (ed.), Medical Sociology, Vol. 1(London: Routledge, 2005).
Cockerham, William C., Hiroyuki Hattori, and Yukio Yamori. 2000. “The Social Gradient in Life Expectancy: The Contrary Case of Okinawa in Japan.” Social Science and Medicine 51:115-122.
Abel, Thomas, William C. Cockerham, and Steffen Niemann. 2000. “A Critical Approach to Lifestyle and Health.” Pp. 54-77 in Jonathan Watson and Stephen Platt (eds.), Research in Health Promotion.. London and New York: Routledge.
*Cockerham, William C. 2000. “The Sociology of Health Behavior and Health Lifestyles.” Pp. 159-172 in Chloe E. Bird, Peter Conrad, and Allen M. Fremont (eds.), Handbook of Medical Sociology, 5th Edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
Lindquist, Christine, William C. Cockerham, and Sean-Shong Hwang. 1999. “Drinking Patterns in the American Deep South.” Journal of Studies on Alcohol 60:663-666.
